Rosa Khutor: The team, also featuring veteran Bode Miller, are still looking for their first medal at the Sochi Games after the downhill and super-combined.

Ligety, a gold medallist at the 2006 Turin Games, said the conditions in warm weather at Rosa Khutor had made for "funky results". "You can see the results sheet," he said. "It's far from the World Cup result sheets. But we all have to ski and deal with it. There are no excuses."